The Times Live "I was in labour at the state hospital when a nurse showed me a paper and said I must sign to allow a Caesarean section," she told…
Staff Writer9 September 2010
Business Day Priti Patel SEX, drugs, rock ’n’ roll with a reality show thrown in: sounds like the perfect cocktail for a media extravaganza. Well it was, just not in…
Priti Patel2 September 2010
By Nicole Fritz and Lloyd Kuveya Outside the international lawyer’s world, the European Court on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms generates little scintillating debate. And yet it is an institution…
Staff Writer17 August 2010
By Nicole Fritz AMONG those who do human rights work and who are inclined to sackcloth and ashes, model Naomi Campbell’s testimony at the Special Court for Sierra Leone caused…
Staff Writer17 August 2010
The media fraternity has roped in other civil society organisations in their looming court case to overturn the Media Practitioners Act. Represented by attorney Dick Bayford and advocate Steven Budlender…
Staff Writer14 August 2010
Business Day AN INDICTMENT issued against a former Rwandan general who was shot in Johannesburg earlier this month, holding him accountable for murders that were part of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide,…
Staff Writer28 June 2010
The Department of Justice was investigating whether South Africa should consider an extradition request for former Rwandan army chief of staff, General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. Justice department spokespersn Tlali Tlali…
Staff Writer23 June 2010
The Mail and Guardian learned on Tuesday that detained Zimbabwean human rights defender Farai Maguwu had been removed from the notorious Matapi police cells in Harare. "Sometime on Saturday, he…
Staff Writer15 June 2010
By City Press International law recognises the widespread and forced use of this practice as a crime against humanity Anna-Maria Lombard At least 12 South African women, sterilised against their…
Staff Writer7 June 2010